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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
a-ha, the literal version
If you are of a certain age, and can actually remember when MTV actually played music videos, you probably remember the video for a-ha's single "Take On Me." It is probably, to this day, my favorite video (not that I've watched videos since the late 80's - but that's another story).
That video won 6 awards at the 1986 video music awards, and rightly so, and the song was named one of the top songs of the '80s and one the top 'one hit wonders' (thank you wikipedia).
As a side note, a-ha is actually in the studio recording a new album (from their official site).
Well, recently someone has created a 'Literal' version of the video, where the lyrics have been changed to tell exactly what is going on in the video. If you are of that certain age, and remember the original video, this one is hilarious. In fact, it's pretty funny even if you aren't of that certain age.
Don'tcha just love this whole internet thing? Once in a while, there is actually some gem that someone creates.
The original video can be seen here:
That video won 6 awards at the 1986 video music awards, and rightly so, and the song was named one of the top songs of the '80s and one the top 'one hit wonders' (thank you wikipedia).
As a side note, a-ha is actually in the studio recording a new album (from their official site).
Well, recently someone has created a 'Literal' version of the video, where the lyrics have been changed to tell exactly what is going on in the video. If you are of that certain age, and remember the original video, this one is hilarious. In fact, it's pretty funny even if you aren't of that certain age.
Don'tcha just love this whole internet thing? Once in a while, there is actually some gem that someone creates.
The original video can be seen here:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Will Social Media Survive?
I was reading through SocialMediaToday, and one of the bloggers asked the question of whether Social Media will survive this downturn that we are going through.
I think there are 2 ways to look at it: 1 is from the perspective of the advertisers, and the other is from the perspective of everyone out there using the various types of social media (the rest of us).
From the first perspective: I think that just as happened after the first Internet bubble burst in '01, most advertisers will pull back anything that they can't track or put a specific ROI to, prior to trying it. There will be some, however, that will continue to engage their customers by creating truly engaging programs across blogs, social networking, UGC sites, etc. etc. And at the end they will be waaaayyy ahead of their competition, because for the rest of us, social media is becoming the way that we live, when online. Everyone I know (or ever knew, it seems) is on Facebook and/or LinkedIn. I read a whole bunch of blogs every day, and write one, of course, as does just about everyone that I know professionally. Every single eCommerce site will (if it doesn't already) have an opportunity for customers to be engaged, whether through reviews or comments at its most simple form, or in much more engaging experiential interactions and communities. In short, by the time the advertisers and marketers get around to realizing that they should be spending an appropriate share of their budgets on these types of campaigns/sites/engagements, their customers will already be there waiting for them. Impatiently. So, social media will indeed survive, and will end up becoming the platform for how we all use the Internet.
Now, if someone can only figure out how to get Facebook to be profitable - but that's a whole other topic.
I think there are 2 ways to look at it: 1 is from the perspective of the advertisers, and the other is from the perspective of everyone out there using the various types of social media (the rest of us).
From the first perspective: I think that just as happened after the first Internet bubble burst in '01, most advertisers will pull back anything that they can't track or put a specific ROI to, prior to trying it. There will be some, however, that will continue to engage their customers by creating truly engaging programs across blogs, social networking, UGC sites, etc. etc. And at the end they will be waaaayyy ahead of their competition, because for the rest of us, social media is becoming the way that we live, when online. Everyone I know (or ever knew, it seems) is on Facebook and/or LinkedIn. I read a whole bunch of blogs every day, and write one, of course, as does just about everyone that I know professionally. Every single eCommerce site will (if it doesn't already) have an opportunity for customers to be engaged, whether through reviews or comments at its most simple form, or in much more engaging experiential interactions and communities. In short, by the time the advertisers and marketers get around to realizing that they should be spending an appropriate share of their budgets on these types of campaigns/sites/engagements, their customers will already be there waiting for them. Impatiently. So, social media will indeed survive, and will end up becoming the platform for how we all use the Internet.
Now, if someone can only figure out how to get Facebook to be profitable - but that's a whole other topic.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Mythbusters & Mona Lisa
My kids love the show Mythbusters on The Discovery Channel. Have to admit, that I like it a lot, also.
I came across this video of the two Mythbusters stars visually describing (at a conference) the difference between how a regular CPU works and a parallel processor commonly found on a video card (a GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit). In total MythBusters fashion. Very cool.
You have to watch it to the end, especially the last couple of seconds in super-slo-mo. No looking ahead, though; you don't want to ruin the surprise.
What the F**K is Social Media?
A couple of pretty good presentations on Social Media. Instead of creating a whole new presentation on social media, I thought I would just link to some others that aren't bad.
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And another Social Media Presentation:
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And another Social Media Presentation:
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